Thoughts and Life of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October, 1869. After his early education in India, he went to England to qualify himself for the bar. He became a barrister. He practiced in South Africa, and started Satyagraha to secure for the Indians their due rights. On his return to Indian in 1915, he joined the Indian National Congress. He threw himself heart and soul into India’s struggle for freedom.

He was the very life and soul of India. For three decades, he remained the guiding deity of the Congress. He was both a saint and a politician. Throughout his wonderful career, he dominated the field of politics in India. At last, he brought his freedom on August 15, 1947.

Thoughts and messages of Gandhi Ji

As a man, he was noble specimen of humanity and led a sanity life. He preached and practiced Truth and Non-violence. For about decades, his contributions to political, social, educational, religious and ethical topics commanded respect and attention both at home and the abroad. His stress was never on the intellectual approach to a problem, but on character to the Indian people. Though he had poor physique, yet he had something of steel in him. He didn’t yield to physical power, however great and formidable they might be. In his personal dealings with individuals hostile to him, he had gained many a victory. It was remarkable how, by sheer forces of personality, he would win over an opponent. He was the true representative of the teeming millions of India. He knew his India well and reacted to her lightest tremors. He gauged a situation accurately and almost instinctively. He had a knack of acting at the most psychological moment. Sometimes he was the single-minded revolutionary going like the arrow to his goal and shaking up millions by his inspiring thoughts in this process. He did not descend from the top. He seemed to emerge from the millions of India, speaking their language.

He was a staunch nationalist. He was a man who felt he had a message not only for India but for the world. He ardently desired world peace. He was a citizen of the world and his nationalism, therefore, had a certain world outlook.

He was every inch a practical man. His actions were always in keeping with his words. He practiced what he preached. He always began with himself. His words and actions fitted into each other like a glove on the hand. Whatever the consequences, he never lost his integrity. There was always an organic completeness about his life and work.

He was very wise, but he never tried to show off his wisdom. He was simple and child-like in many ways and he loved children. He taught us not to hate anybody, not to quarrel, but to play with one another and co-operate in the services of the country. In regard to the basic things, he was inflexible and firm as a rock. For him, there was no compromise with what he considered evil. He taught us the lesson of unity, equality and brotherhood. The father of the Nation was a great believer in the efficacy of prayers. On the evening of January 1948 he was, as usual going to the prayer meeting in Birla House. A misguided youth fired at Gandhiji killing him there and then. He was the greatest of the great and the like of him may not be born for centuries to come.